A Decade of Reveal
Reveal
The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX
4.7 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week on Reveal, we celebrate our 10-year anniversary with a look back at some of our favorite stories, from investigations into water shortages in drought-prone California to labor abuses in the Dominican Republic. And we interview the journalists behind the reporting to explain what happened after the stories aired.
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| 0:00.0 | Did you know you have the power to inspire future generations with the same impactful reporting you trust and believe in right now? |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Lisa Schachter and I manage the Legacy Society program at the Center for Investigative Reporting. |
| 0:13.7 | When you include reveal in your will or other legacy plans, you are passing along your values of truth and integrity. |
| 0:21.1 | It won't cost you anything right now, |
| 0:23.2 | and you don't need to be wealthy to make a difference. |
| 0:26.0 | A gift of any size through your will, |
| 0:28.5 | or from your retirement plan, life insurance plan, |
| 0:31.7 | or other financial account, |
| 0:33.4 | can ensure that reveals meaningful, factual Reporting continues for decades to come. |
| 0:39.1 | For more information about making a legacy gift to reveal, or to notify us that you already have, |
| 0:44.7 | give me a call at 415-321-1-1706, or send an email to GIFs at RevealNews.org. |
| 0:53.3 | Again, that's 415-321-1-706, to GIFS at RevealNews.org. Again, that's 415, 3211-1706, |
| 0:57.5 | or GIFs at RevealNews.org. |
| 1:00.1 | Please consider creating your legacy of truth today. |
| 1:04.4 | Thank you. |
| 1:08.9 | I'm Al Leadsen, and today we're going back to a simpler time. |
| 1:14.6 | In 2013, I got a call from a friend and a mentor who asked me if I'd be interested in hosting a pilot for a new show centered on investigative journalism. |
| 1:26.0 | And that was the start of what would become. |
| 1:29.2 | From the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, this is Reveal. I'm Al Lez. |
| 1:36.4 | It's been 10 years since Reveal became a public radio show and podcast. In that time, we've talked to |
| 1:42.4 | thousands of people all around the world, bringing you |
| 1:45.6 | stories that inspire, that enrage, that enlighten to try to give you and me a better |
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